Perfect timing this morning making coffee. There I stood at the counter, idly looking out the window at the lilacs and noticing it’s time to cut them back, when a rustling underneath caught my attention. Then a clumsy flutter from the left and a baby scrub jay landed on the stick.

In flew mama with a grasshopper! Screaming ensued. Two more babies emerged from under the lilacs. Within ten minutes they had all flown away… but what a fun ten minutes for me.